Jan Pietersz Beelthouwer Explained

Jan Pieterszoon Beelthouwer (c.1603—c.1665) was a Dutch Collegiant controversialist of unorthodox beliefs from Enkhuizen. He propagated Socinian views.^[1]

From around 1644 he had public debates with Isaac Montalto, Jacob Judah Leon and Menasseh ben Israel, Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam.^[2] He was regarded as a heretic in Enkhuizen from 1656. He wrote against the conservative Mennonite apothecary Lambert Bidloo.^[3]

External links

• NNBW page
• Jan Pieterszoon Beelthouwer (ca.1603-ca.1669) en de Joden

Notes and References

1. Philip Knijff, Bibliographia Sociniana: a bibliographical reference tool for the study of Dutch Socinianism and Antitrinitarianism (2004), p. 23; Google Books.
2. Miriam Bodian, Hebrews of the Portuguese nation: conversos and community in early modern Amsterdam (1999), p. 70; Google Books.
3. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/B44350.html GAMEO page